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Book Giveaway: RUIN VALUE

Enter to win an advance reader copy of my newest book (due out in October)–Ruin Value: A Mystery of the Third Reich.

Nuremberg is a dead city. In the aftermath of World War II, two-thirds of its population has fled or is deceased, with thirty thousand bodies turning the ruined industrial center into a massive open grave. Here, the vilest war criminals in history will be tried. But in Nuremberg’s dark streets and back alleys, chaos rules.

Captain Nathan Morgan is one of those charged with bringing order to the home of the war crime trials. A New York homicide detective who spent the war in Army intelligence, he was born to be a spy—and now, in 1945, there is no finer place for his trade than Nuremberg. As the US grapples with the Soviets for postwar supremacy, a serial murderer targets the occupying forces. Nathan Morgan may be the perfect spy, but it’s time for him to turn cop once more.

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Sweepstakes begins at 12:01 AM Eastern Time (“ET”) on August 5th, 2013 and ends at 11:59 PM ET on August 16th, 2013. Three advance reader copies available. Open to U.S. residents only.

I just started reading The Keeper of Hands today. I love the characters Werthen, his wife, Bertha, Gross, and his wife, Adele. Most important, the cultural, intellectual, and political world of Vienna comes alive in these books. I have been studying the history of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire for the last five or six years. I hope you do not plan to end this series.
Lenore

Lenore,
With readers like you I could keep the series going forever! Actually, it is sketched out until Gross’s death in 1915. I was planning on a book taking place in each year between 1898 and 1915, but with book five, almost done now, I am still in 1901. I like these characters too–I feel at home with them. I very much enjoy painting the domestic life of 1900. I am also publishing stand-alone thrillers at the same time and so far the balancing act has worked. So for the foreseeable future, it’s a book a year for me, more for my characters.
Best,
Syd

Thank you! This is good news! I have been studying era anyway for the last five or six years. So it is great to have “fiction” or historical fiction to read as well, and historical fiction that is well written.

J. Sydney Jones

J. Sydney Jones is the author of the acclaimed "Viennese Mystery" series, set in Vienna 1900. Novels include THE EMPTY MIRROR, REQUIEM IN VIENNA, THE SILENCE, THE KEEPER OF HANDS, and A MATTER OF BREEDING.
“What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for Victorian London and Caleb Carr did for old New York, J. Sydney Jones does for historic Vienna.”
-Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling author

Visit him at his Web site: www.jsydneyjones.com

The Third Place

A MATTER OF BREEDING

The Keeper of Hands

The Silence

Requiem in Vienna

The Empty Mirror

Honors/Awards

Named one of the 50 Best Blogs for Crime & Mystery Book Lovers (courtreporter.net)
Named to the 2010 Top 45 Mystery Blogs